Senior Program Coordinator

Job Details

General Notes

Position is full-time, grant-funded, and contingent on continued receipt of funding. Position is funded through August 31, 2025.

Purpose

Provide day-to-day project coordinator on Center for Health Communication (CHC) grant-funded programs related to cancer screening, prenatal health, and public health disease monitoring.

Responsibilities

With minimal supervisory oversight, provide day-to-day leadership, management, and implementation for three grant-funded, TX-based projects, including Father’s Playbook (an app to promote men’s involvement in prenatal health), Project CONNECT (an initiative to promote colorectal cancer screening), and a wastewater monitoring project to aid in disease tracking.

Serve as lead content creator for Father’s Playbook, including for social media and app content. Create and manage paid search and digital marketing campaigns.

Routine tracking and reporting of advertising and app metrics.

Collaborate with researchers to apply research findings to real-world health communication strategies and tactics. Collaborate with graphic designers to create a wide range of creative materials that help meet contract requirements and broader public health goals.

Apply public health program planning principles to plan, implement, and evaluate major health communication initiatives;

steward evidence-based health communication principles.

Support CHC’s mission to lead the creation of evidence-based health communication research education, and practice. Related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in public health, communication, advertising, or related field

5 or more years’ experience with project management

Prior experience managing complex timelines with multistage tasks and multiple stakeholders

Demonstrated success at coordinating teams toward a common goal

Previous experience with leading meetings, tracking project progress, and routine monitoring and reporting

Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervisory oversight

Demonstrated ability to get up to speed on a project quickly

Excellent communication skills with internal team as well as external stakeholders

Interest in health communication, public health, and the mission of the Center for Health Communication

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree in public health, communication, advertising, or related field

5 or more years’ experience with project management and leadership

Prior experience managing complex timelines and budgets for large projects

Previous experience creating / writing content for a public health initiative

Previous experience managing a digital marketing initiative, such as buying ads on Facebook / Meta or paid Google search ads;

utilizing advertising metrics to make data-based decisions

1 or more years supervisory experience

Salary Range

$52,500 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

Standard office conditions.

Required Materials

Resume / CV

3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor

Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers : You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications.

Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section;

you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.

Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers : As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs.

If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply.

This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume.

In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.

that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility :

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers.

Staff who are promotion / transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility :

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks :

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.